Item [19] promotes Watkins Cocoa. Includes coupon for Watkins expert cook book for 5 c; advantages of Watkins over other cocoas; and serving suggestion and product packaging illustrations. Sample recipes: devil's food cake, mocha nectar, and Watkins cocoa pie. Marked: FD5.
Item [20] promotes Williams-Sonoma. Includes detailed instructions for tempering chocolate for making molded or dipped chocolates and 5 recipes printed on card with perforations for tearing into individual cards. Sample recipes: chocolate Madeleines and chocolate mousse.
Item [21] promotes Storck Chocolate Riesen Caramels. Includes 8 recipes; address for comments; and serving suggestion illustrations. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: Riesen festive Yule log and Riesen Irish coffee cheesecake. Marked: X-BK-194.
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Item [1] promotes the Hershey Chocolate Company and is a postcard with an illustration of the newly enlarged plant in Hershey, PA. Requires one cent stamp. No recipes. Dated based on when plant was modified according to corporate website.
Item [2] promotes the Barbara Fritchie Chocolate Shoppe and includes a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier titled "Barbara Fritchie." Includes short biography of Barbara Fritchie; description of an encounter she had with General Jackson during the Civil War; advertisement for boxed chocolates; and images of Barbara Fritchie in period dress and her historic home. No recipes.
Item [3] promotes Walter Baker & Company cocoa and chocolate products and includes recipes from Miss Fannie Merritt Farmer, Miss Elizabeth Kevill Burr, Miss M. E. Robinson, Mrs. Rorer, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Bedford, Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Salzbacher; with other contributions by Mrs. Ellen H. Richards. Includes attributed chocolate, cocoa, and candy recipes; historical information about chocolate and cocoa; advice relative to the cooking of chocolate and cocoa; advertisements for Baker's chocolate and cocoa; images of product packaging and serving suggestions; laid-in brochure explaining the origin of the Walter Baker & Company trade-mark image of "La Belle Chocolatière"; and index. Sample recipes: chocolate-dipped fruit fudge, maple fondant acorns, and frozen chocolate.
Item [4] is similar to item [3] but includes a cover title of "Choice Recipes" and a different cover illustration; "The Story of the Chocolate Girl" instead of the historical descriptions of chocolate and cocoa; and a few different recipes than those in item [3], including three recipes from Mrs. Peck.
Item [5] promotes Walter Baker & Company chocolate and breakfast cocoa and includes recipes from Fannie Farmer, Maria Parloa, Janet McKenzie Hill, and A. Louise Andrea. Includes beverage, cake, icing, dessert, and candy recipes; historical information about cocoa, chocolate, and the founding of the company; advice for using the recipes; descriptions of the contributing cooks; advertisements for chocolate and breakfast cocoa; images of mills, product packaging, and serving suggestions; and index. Sample recipes: iced orange chocolate, chocolate sandwiches, and chocolate rice meringue. Marked: F 5444.
Item [6] promotes working for General Motors and was created by home economists Lillian C. Ziegfeld, Mabel G. Stolte, Frances H. Banta; photographers Albert Gommi and Demetria M. Taylor; and food stylist Annette Rhys, all of the Tested Recipe Institute, Inc. Includes cake, candy, cookie, pie, sauce, frosting, and other chocolate dessert recipes; images of serving suggestions; and index. Some recipes include wine, beer, or liquor as an ingredient. Sample recipes: Congo frosting, bittersweet chiffon pie, and chocolate log. Marked: IR-58-38.